Star-Ledger 'on life support'
By EditorThe Star-Ledger might be looking for a new owner if 200 employees don’t agree to buyouts by October 1, and if the paper doesn’t reach agreements with labor unions, according to a Star-Ledger report of publisher George Arwady’s comments to employees today. Arwady said the paper was “on life support.”
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is that why
they have been writing MAN BITES DOG SCREAMING HEADLINE stories in the past couple years. I mean the Rutgers stuff and this Meadlowlands tickset "expose" is just amateurish.
Where is the Torch?
Why the Torch did not write anything?
Where's the Torch?
Come on, Torch, flame the Ledger now!
"I figure people drift toward liberalism at a young age, and I always hope that they change when they see how the world really is.”
- Johnny Ramone
You people must not know how to read.
"The Star Ledger has become the only credible source of state news while the New York Times and Washington Post have become indispensable as sources of international or national information."
-- RGT
The Star-Ledger
Is a Newark based paper that tried to position itself as a statewide forum without really covering the state.
The decline of Newark economically led to the paper's rudderless ways for more than three decades.
What kept the Ledger afloat was the fact the Sunday edition served as a statewide advertising vehicle under the old model of classified and insert advertising.
The paper is dying because of that migration to the web without an advertising revenue stream comparable to print. It's the same dilemma of every newspaper in America.
Vote Column - All the way!
Papers are dying
because people under 45 are reading their news online on seeing it on tv. They don't go to their sidewalk or driveway and pick up a paper on go to an old fashioned box, put in two quarters and
wrestle out a paper. That's old school! Newspapers are like cds-we don't really want to let them go but we know, we know....
They only really appeal the
They only really appeal the liberal fringe, if anyone, any more. It would be nice if they at least pretended to be neutral.
Good Riddance
The more these liberal rags burn the better off we'll all be.
Cancelled my home subscription years ago when it became a marxists propaganda sheet.
R. I. P.
The Star-Leder and for that matter all Newspapers only deliver yesterday's news. Everything is more current in digital format on the internet. In the next 10 years all the computer illiterate will be gone and so will most print media.
Now you can even down load best sellers eliminating the need for printed books. Trying to revive the Star-Ledger is just another classic case of denial on the part of management.
If it wants to continue its quest for circulation rather than expand it's internet presence, let it die.
Rest In Peace.
"A society that puts equality . . . ahead of freedom will end up with neither." ~ Milton Friedman.
Buckle up
I love it when myopic jerks who rarely venture past the safety of their own paved driveways gripe and moan about the political biases they "perceive" in various daily newspapers. Is there a single rag anywhere in America that hasn't been accused of this? (Besides the Washington Times?) Maybe all of you have forgotten that, to paraphrase Finley Peter Dunne, the job of a newspaper is to "comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable." There's the bias, right there. If it seems "liberal" to you, too bad. Newspapers -- the best ones anyway -- view themselves as a counterbalance to wealth and power. This is as it should be. End of story.
Someday, when your local officials are doing something questionable or corrupt, when you're having a problem and have nowhere else to turn, I hope you find something new to complain about: the fact there ain't a newspaper in sight for you to call up and ask for help. Selah.
The Ledger
Oh, that's rich!
So now McGreevey, Lesniak, and Cryan, are the poor huddled masses speaking truth to power.
Never mind buckling up, someone should strap you in.
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Thanks redyankee
Seriously. I appreciate it.
Your web page is nice, by the way. But you misspelled "pedophile." If you're going to write a whole book all by yourself, you might want to use spell-check. Most publishing software includes it these days.
Bitter much, spenk?
Don't blame us (or Bob Torricelli) for your choice of a cliff as a career path.
You and your ilk have taken too much joy in covering too many falls of too many others.
Comeuppance is a bitch, ain't it?
Another nice call
Payback would be a bitch, I guess, if I worked at a newspaper. Sadly, I do not. I make much more money than that.
Of course, I told you in a post under the Torricelli/Record column a week back that I don't work at a paper, but ... that was nine whole days ago, so I guess you'd forgotten by now. Man, it sucks to get old, huh?
Newspapers are old fashioned
I am surprised the Star Ledger made it this far. When you buy a daily Star Ledger you get old news but you get a lot of advertisements. I don't want to pay 50 cents to read advertising. I live in Morris County and the Ledger no longer has a Morris County section on Monday or Saturday. On the other days most of the stories in the Morris County section deal with other counties, Who are they trying to kid? Let's have a nice obituary for Star Ledger. At one point, years ago, they were a good, fair newspaper. Somehow they lost that reputation. I hope their reporters are able to find other jobs...
Um, no.
Actually, what you said was: "No, s/he is not a paid employee of NJMG, nor have I ever been."
And what's with your preoccupation about how much you are or are not paid?
Newhouse News Goes As Well
The Star Ledger is not just going to lose a third of its local news reporters. Word is that the Newhouse Washington News Bureau, which provides the national news for the paper (and 15 other regional dailies owned by the same corporation), will close down after the November election.
What this means is that, while you will still have many other places to get broad national events, readers of the Star Ledger will no longer get the Washington news that affects New Jersey on a local level, whether it’s legislation, regulation, NJ Congressional news or what have you.
what the star ledger does provide...
at least, is a statewide perspective on things. other newspapers in NJ are good in some areas, but only regionally. there definately has to be statewide stream of news, whether in the paper itself or online.
So Nice: You Should Read It Twice.....
What we really need in NJ is more news outlets doing more deeply investigative journalism and shedding more light into all the dirty dark corners of Republicans and Democrats alike.
Most of this lib vs con stuff is bullshit. What most people want is plain honest government that protects it's citizens from crooks and liars of all stripes...and to be left alone to enjoy the freedoms spelled out in the US Constitution.
If newspapers started really doing their jobs there would be a political/civil revolution in NJ and 90% of all incumbents would find themselves out of office...and many of them would find themselves convicted of crimes and sentenced to long stretches in prison. That's how dirty this state is.
Meanwhile here's spenk again.....
""""""Buckle up
posted by spenk
I love it when myopic jerks who rarely venture past the safety of their own paved driveways gripe and moan about the political biases they "perceive" in various daily newspapers. Is there a single rag anywhere in America that hasn't been accused of this? (Besides the Washington Times?) Maybe all of you have forgotten that, to paraphrase Finley Peter Dunne, the job of a newspaper is to "comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable." There's the bias, right there. If it seems "liberal" to you, too bad. Newspapers -- the best ones anyway -- view themselves as a counterbalance to wealth and power. This is as it should be. End of story.
Someday, when your local officials are doing something questionable or corrupt, when you're having a problem and have nowhere else to turn, I hope you find something new to complain about: the fact there ain't a newspaper in sight for you to call up and ask for help. Selah.""""""
From Frederick Douglass